Despite what your teachers may have told you, the “rules” of English are far more like guidelines. They can be broken at will for stylistic choices (or just for fun). Since no existing style guide covers all of my own personal preferences for the language, I’ve created my own. This is a perpetual work in progress: it documents scenarios and “rules” as I have to make editing decisions (or just as I think of something neat) and it will evolve as my own writing style evolves.

Over the course about seven months in 2011, I posted one hundred and thirty-eight facts to Facebook. Most of these facts were pop culture references (like song lyrics) and most were not, in fact, factual. I’ve collected them here for posterity.